Churn.



H. D. MILLER.

CHURN.

APPLICATION FILED APR. s. 1910.

1,046,832. Patented Dec. 10, 1912.

HERMAN D. MILLER, OF HARRIETSVILLE, OHIO.

CHURN.

Patented Application filed April 5, 1910. Serial No. 558,591.

responding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals 5 designates a platform which maybe of any desirable shape and size and also constructed from anysuitable material, the same being formed with depending legs 6 wherebythe said platform 5 is held elevat-ed from the ground or flooring.Mounted upon the upper face of the platform 5 near its marginal edge isa foot 7 in which is detachably mounted the lower end of an invertedsubstantially L-shaped standard or bracket 8, to the right angular arm 9of which is secured a supplemental standard or bracket 10 which isformed with a central bearing 11 in which is journaled a stub shaft 12having fixed at one end a beveled driving gear 13 while at its oppositeend is fixed a turning crank or handle 14 whereby the said shaft 12 maybe manually rotated.

Superimposed upon the platform 5 is a churn body 15 the same being ofthe usual well known construction having its mounted portion closed by aremovable cover or top 16 provided with a suitable central openingsurrounded by a dished portion 17 and through this opening is passed adasher shaft 18 the lower end of which has its bearing upon a collarintegral with and forming a shoulder 18 on a further dasher shaft 19fitted within the shaft 18, the shaft 19 at its lower end has itsbearing in a socket 20 formed in the bott-om of the churn body 15, theshaft 19 being considerably longer than the hollow shaft 18 has itsupper end journaled in a bifurcation or fork 21 formed in the free endof the bracket 10 while the hollow shaft 18 has its upper end journaledin a similar bifurcation or fork 22 formed in the free end of the arm 9of the bracket 8, the bifurcations or forks being closed by fillingblocks 23 det-achably held therein by means of cotter pins 211 carriedby the said arms and intersecting the bifurcations, and engaged with thefilling blocks. 1

Fixed to the upper ends of the shafts 18 and 19 are beveled pinions 25meshing with the driving gear 13 and on rotation of the said drivinggear 13 the shafts 18 and 19 will rotate in opposite directions to eachother. The shaft 18 is formed with opposite outwardly extending dasherblades 26 and the shaft 19 near its lower end is formed withSpecification of Letters Patent. Dec. 1G, 1912.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HERMAN D. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Harrietsville, in the county of Noble, State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Churns; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a churn and more particularly to the class ofrotary dasher churns.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a churn in whichcream con* tained within the churn body will be subjected to a severeagitation by means of oppositely rotatable dasher blades whereby thecream will be quickly converted into butter.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a churn in which thedasher shafts are supported relative to the churn body so that the saiddasher shafts may be readily and quickly detached from their support sothat it may be removed from the churn body for the cleaning of thelatter and also the dasher blades on the shafts.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a churn in whichthe dasher blades, are disposed within the churn body so that uponopposite rotation of the dasher shafts the said blades will rotate indifferent directions thereby setting up opposed currents in the liquidcontained within the churn body for thoroughly churning said liquid inthe formation of butter.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts as will behereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings disclosing the preferred form of embodiment of the inventionand pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings :*F igure 1 is a side elevation 'of a churn constructedin accordance with the invention the same being partly broken away. Fig.2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is afragmentary top plan view of the upper arm of one of the brackets. Fig.4 is a similar view of the lower bracket.

Similar reference characters indicate coropposite outwardly and upwardlyextendingl the body and angularly directed arms proarallel arms 27having inturned dasher jecting from the lower end of the shaft, blades28 arranged upon the vertical porsaid arms being bent upwardly aboutmidtions thereof and the extremities of the pa-rway their length andterminating in 1nallel arms 27 are bent inwardly to form the wardlydirected dasher portions, dashers upp-er dasher blades, and these dasherblades projecting from the upwardly directed porrotate in planes abovethe planes of the tions of said arms, said shaft having a shouldasherblades 26 upon the rotation of the der formed therewith adjacent thelower end dasher shafts in opposite directions to each of the arms, saidshafts projecting through other. the removable cover, and an outertubular It will be clearly obvious that when it is shaft rotatablymounted upon the inner desired to clean the churn body 15 or to shaftand having its lower end resting upon remove the-dashers therefrom it.is only the shoulder of the inner shaft, the upper necessary to detachthe cotter pins 24 from end of said outer shaft projecting above the thebrackets 8 and 10 and on removal of the removable cover, said outershaft having securing blocks 23 from the bifurcations in outwardlydirected dashers between and bethe free ends of the brackets thusenabling neath the dasher portions of the arms carthe churn to beremoved from the platform ried by the inner shaft, and means for rotat-5 whereby the dashers may be removed from ing the shafts in oppositedirections.

the said churn to permit cleaning thereof, ln testimony whereof, I aiiixmy signaalso the dashers or discharge of content-s ture, in presence oftwo witnesses.

from the said body. HERMAN D. MLLER' What is claimed is:

In a churn the combination with a churn Vit-nesses: body and removabletop; of an inner shaft A. E. LrNcIsoMEs, having one end mounted in thebottom o-f A. A. STEPHENS.

Copies of this patent may be obtanedvfor ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

